#kathy ap

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Do you ship it?

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SOOO excited to finally post my piece for the @paradeofseasons zine!! <33333 and considering october is right around the corner the timing is perfect 🙂‍↕️

this piece was sm fun OMG 🥹 i think my favorite part was choosing costumes for all the kids!!! they were all very carefully thought out, i wanted to make sure they had a super nostalgic vibe. i even made some references to a few other bokumono faves too!! <3

a lot of them got covered up in the composition so i wanted to share some of my concept scribbles. vivian is wearing grandpa hamilton’s coat LOL

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Roy’s Child’s Day

Love how he even does the same bouncy thing with his arms that Owen does

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i think the rival system should exist in more games where romanceable characters can and will get together with each other instead of only with the player, it makes them feel more independent and real. the only downside is it breaks my heart to feel like i'm separating a couple if i have to romance one that has a designated ship </3

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harvest moon animal parade, kathy and owens wedding i wish i planned their heart events so they got married in the summer

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[sakuranightmarez]

Much love for the lovely ladies of farming named Kathy. Left is from Harvest Moon: Animal Parade and Right is from Suikoden 3.

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Fun Facts. 100% verified.

Throughout his career, Bruce Springsteen has mentioned "gas station pay phones" in fourteen different songs.

The New York State Office of Mental Health Associates released a statement which read "If we can get over Kathie Lee and Hoda not being on TV together, we can get over anything!"

The most indispensable Thanksgiving side dish in North Carolina is something called livermush cobbler.

The bonuses for the first Super Bowl winners were payed out in livestock.

Eight episodes of the Munsters were written by Gore Vidal.

Dr. Zaius on the grounds of the Palamino Motel.

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ఏపీ గవర్నర్ నజీర్ తలుపు తట్టిన కోడి కత్తి శ్రీను కేసు.

Trinethram News : విజయవాడ ఐదున్నరేళ్ళుగా జైలులో మగ్గుతున్న కోడి కత్తి శ్రీనివాసరావును బెయిల్ మంజూరు కూడా చేయకుండా ప్రభుత్వం అడ్డుపడుతోందని పలు రాజకీయ పార్టీలు, దళిత సంఘాలు శుక్రవారం ఏపీ గవర్నర్ నజీర్ ను కలిసి వినతి పత్రం సమర్పించారు. కోడి కత్తి కేసు సంఘటనతో పాటు, ముఖ్యమంత్రి వైఎస్ జగన్మోహన్ రెడ్డి బెయిల్ రాకుండా అడ్డుకుంటున్నారని పూర్తి వివరాలను తెలియజేశారు. రాష్ట్రంలో ఎస్సీ ఎస్టీ లపై జరుగుతున్న దాడులు, దౌర్జన్యాలు, హత్యలు, అత్యాచారాల సంఘటనలను కూడా వివరించారు. గవర్నర్ సావధానంగా అన్ని అంశాలను విన్నారు. తెలుగు దేశం పార్టీ నాయకులు వర్ల రామయ్య, జనసేన పార్టీ నాయకులు పోతిన మహేష్, సిపిఐ పార్టీ నాయకులు బోడేపూడి శంకర్, మైనారిటీ నాయకులు షుబ్లీ, అమరావతి బహుజన జెఎసి అధ్యక్షులు పోతుల బాలకోటయ్య, సమతా సైనిక సురేంద్ర, పింకీ, మాలమహానాడు నాయకులు, శ్రీను తల్లి సావిత్రమ్మ, సోదరుడు సుబ్బరాజు ఉన్నారు.

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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The Trump administration’s expansive new tariffs will likely lead to higher inflation and slower growth, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Friday.

Powell said that the tariffs, and their likely impacts on the economy and inflation, are “significantly larger than expected.” He also said that the import taxes are “highly likely” to lead to “at least a temporary rise in inflation,” but added that “it is also possible that the effects could be more persistent.”

“Our obligation is to ... make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell said in remarks delivered in Arlington, Virginia.

Powell’s focus on inflation suggests that the Fed will likely keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at about 4.3% in the coming months. Wall Street investors, meanwhile, now expect five interest rate cuts this year, a number that has increased since President Donald Trump announced the tariffs Wednesday.

Powell also emphasized that the full impact of the tariffs on the economy aren’t yet clear, and the Fed will likely stay on the sidelines until it has more clarity about the economy.

There’s a lot of waiting and seeing going on, including by us,” Powell said during a question and answer session. “And that just seems like the right thing to do in this period of uncertainty.”

Trump, separately, urged Powell to cut rates, citing lower inflation and energy prices on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates,” Trump wrote. “CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!”

Economists expect that the tariffs will weaken the economy, possibly threaten hiring, and push up prices. In that scenario, the Fed could cut rates to bolster the economy, or it could keep rates unchanged — or even hike them — to combat inflation. Powell’s comments suggest the Fed will mostly focus on inflation.

Powell’s remarks come two days after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs that have upended the global economy, prompted retaliatory moves by China, and sent stock prices in the U.S. and overseas plunging.

Weaker growth and higher prices are a tricky combination for the Fed. Typically the central bank would reduce its key interest rate to lower borrowing costs and spur the economy in the event of slower growth, while it would raise rates — or keep them elevated — to slow spending and combat inflation.

“The Fed is in a tough spot with inflation set to accelerate and the economy poised to slow,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide.

Powell said the economy and hiring remain solid, for now, but he noted that consumers and businesses have become more pessimistic about the future.

He also said inflation has fallen sharply from its peak in 2022, but said that recently progress toward the central bank’s 2% target “has slowed.”

Some positive news arrived Friday when the government reported that hiring accelerated in March, with 228,000 jobs added, though the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%, from 4.1%.

Yet those figures measure hiring in mid-March, before the scope of the duties became clear. The tariffs have also raised uncertainty about how the economy will fare in the coming months, which could limit businesses’ willingness to invest and hire.

[louisaland]

SVU Stabler kids’ schools

For fic purposes, I was trying to find out where some of the Stabler kids go to school.

In Season 1, we can assume Maureen goes to school that doesn’t have a uniform, and that is probably not single sex as she goes to the Homecoming dance in Wanderlust with a boy and see her dad drop her off towards the end of Sophomore Jinx and nobody seems to be wearing anything remotely similar to Maureen’s black top and white jeans.

In Season 6, Elliot goes to talk to Kathleen outside her high school, which is named as Glen Oaks High School. The exterior looks completely different to where Elliot dropped Maureen off in Season 1, and I think there are only girls around, so it could be single sex. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of uniform though, as all Kathleen’s friends are wearing wildly different outfits. 

In Season 3, Kathleen is shown to be struggling with several subjects so maybe Elliot and Kathy deemed a smaller school with fewer distractions might be better ( if there aren’t any boys that will minimise the boy drama) but Elliot mentions Kathleen’s former boyfriend, so I really don’t know, it could be the same school as Maureen’s.

In Season 11, Turmoil, we find out that Dickie goes to Cardinal Catholic Prep School, which has a pretty strict/smart uniform ( shirt, tie and blazer), and seems to be single sex as when the SVU squad come to interview Dickie’s classmates, we only see boys there. 

We know that Dickie got into a fight in Season 8, which would be middle school age. So maybe Elliot and Kathy thought he’d be happier/do better in a smaller school with more support and he’d have some more male friends/guy time as he seems to take Kathy and Elliot’s split very hard and seemingly only lives with his mum, sisters and grandma during their separation and doesn’t see his dad as much as he would like to. 

My head canon is that Lizzie goes to a performing arts school and they put on regular shows ( in Season 10 or 11, Elliot ends up going to one of them and mentions she was in Anne Frank before that). 

And Eli, when they are in Rome, goes to an International School where he has classes in English with other native English speakers and history, geography, science, maths etc are all in Italian, though the American section do focus on US history, geography and literature too, of course. 

When Eli returns to New York, he is several years ahead of his peers so is in all AP classes or joins the older students for their lessons and graduates early, at 16/17, to help with the wonky timeline as he is supposed to be at most 14 when Kathy dies ( and it’s probably closer to 13, really), if my maths is correct. Each Season is 6 months to a year long, with maybe a few “X months later” jumps, He left in Season 12, aged (nearly?)  3, came back in Season 22, so that’s 10 years give or take, plus let’s say 2 time jumps of 6 months each makes him 14. And by Season 3 he is already in college, which would make him 17-ish! 

[rustbeltjessie]

Litany (for Kathy Acker)

by Diane di Prima

our lady of maggots

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I recently discovered the existence of a poem by Diane di Prima, titled “Litany (for Kathy Acker).” Apparently, it (or part of it? a version of it?) was performed by Diane di Prima’s partner at the scattering of Kathy Acker’s ashes, as detailed in Chris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker. When I learned of it, I freaked out, because Diane di Prima and Kathy Acker are two of my biggest inspirations/people whom I considered part of my literary lineage; also, I invoke the language of litany in a lot of my own poetry. I tried to track the poem down, but it doesn’t seem that any version of it has been printed anywhere, at least not anywhere accessible to me. What I did find was this, a 2019 performance of (a version of? part of?) the poem—and I decided to transcribe it. Unfortunately there were a number of words that were unintelligible to me; the sound quality in the video is not great, and one of the performers’ voices, in particular, was difficult for me to parse. So I did the best I could. Any words I could not make out have been replaced by [ ].

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Kathy and Owen 7 heart Rival heart event part 2

[ryanhamiltonwalsh]

A Rick Rolls a Nation — a timeline of the JD Vance couch joke

July 15th, 2024: "can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an Inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181)." — @ rickrudescalves (the now deleted tweet)

Arguably, this ground zero tweet overly complicates things. Soon, the "latex glove" element will be completely forgotten and JD will *only* be fucking couches "raw dog style" in almost all subsequent variations on the joke.

July 15th, 2024 - Present: The joke goes absolutely bonkers viral. Comedian Kathy Griffin, who famously overstepped in 2017 by posing for a photo with a model of Trump's bloodied, disembodied head, believes the joke to be true, boosts it as if it is.

July 24th, 2024: The Associated Press publishes a fact check of the "claim," which is inherently hilarious.

July 25th, 2024: The Associated Press retracts the piece, causing fans of the Vance/couch meme to go wild with delight, the joke being that they retracted it because there's actually something to it. “The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn’t go through our standard editing process. We are looking into how that happened" — AP spokesperson Nicole Meir

July 30th, 2024: Business Insider tracks down the originator of the joke and interviews him --->

"@ rickrudescalves hid the post within a week of publishing it, but the couch joke had already left an impression."

He says he was uncomfortable with the attention the joke received, and is mildly worried about being accused of election interference, but has no regrets.

Rick cites Werner Herzog, Jorge Luis Borges, John Fowles, and Hunter S. Thompson in explaining precedents for the form and details of the joke.

July 31st, 2024: JD Vance either intentionally makes a lame joke embracing (or trying to claim ownership of) the couch meme, or does so accidentally via free association. Either way, it falls totally flat and the man continues to dazzle America with his complete lack of charisma and his disgusting views on women's rights.

August 6th, 2024: Tim Walz is selected as Kamala Harris's Vice Presidential running mate. That night, in Philadelphia, Walz kills with a Vance/Couch joke.

August 7-8th-ish, 2024: The far right, led by Laura Loomer and Don Jr, makes an unfunny, clumsy, intentional attempt to do the same kind of joke with Walz by claiming...he...drinks horse cum? Because this is so...just gross—a classic over-escalation, you might say—and completely manufactured, this attempt seems to be dead on arrival.

August 9th, 2024: The non-GOP backlash officially begins. New York Magazine pubishes:

"Besides the tiresome-but-correct moral case, leaning on fake memes also just isn’t necessary, much as it may delight Democrats’ online base. Good political candidates have always known how to get vicious while staying within the lines of accuracy. This means homing in on opponents’ real weaknesses, a task the Harris campaign has thus far excelled at."

To which there was an excellent Twitter response:

Right. Who owns the joke? Is it democrats? Is it officials or citizens? The answer is no one, and therefore the idea it can be policed is itself a kind of joke, I think.

Where will it go from here? We shall see.

I wonder if we'll ever learn the identity of Rick, because, I agree, I think a joke made in mid-July may have altered history.

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harvest moon animal parade, own's proposal to kathy

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